"We are very pleased to have this delay behind us, and now expect this case to move forward aggressively," said John Danforth, senior vice president and general counsel at Rambus, in a statement. "Our first aim is to get access to what we understand to be the price-fixing documents that have already been gathered in related civil and criminal cases by a number of parties. We believe that those documents likely contributed to the near record fines, guilty pleas and jail sentences already reported by the U.S. Dept. of Justice in a related, still-pending criminal investigation."
Subsequent to Rambus filing suit, Infineon agreed to plea guilty and pay a $160 million fine last Fall to a U.S. Dept. of Justice investigation charging Infineon and other memory makers of conspiring to fixed DRAM prices from 1999 to 2002.
In December, four Infineon executives agreed to pay $250,000 fines and serve four to six-month jail terms for their roles in the price-fixing scheme.